Seniors visit Grounds for Sculpture and Chelsea Galleries

Every Year our students at Dwight-Englewood get to experience some of the amazing artistic offerings so close at hand.  This spring seniors were able to tour the Chelsea art galleries, walk amidst the peacocks at the Grounds for Sculpture and spent the day at the Museum of Modern Art,...here are just a few of the pics from those memorable days...

Lining up at the Grounds for Sculpture, Seniors 2013 enjoy this Munch homage and a Segal classic.

Chelsea galleries offer many surprises...

 

Enjoying a Howard Kalish at Grounds for Sculpure, D-E has 2 on view as well...

 

Grounds for Sculpture has several Impressionist works that come alive in 3 dimensions...

Contemplating contemporary art in Chelsea is a yearly ritual for Seniors at Dwight....

Many seniors also enjoyed a trip to the MOMA this spring as well...

Students immediately recognized this Richard Heinrich from its similarity to Zoot Suit which welcomes visitors to Swartley...on our own campus...

Found 2 of the 3 Amigo, (our very own spoken word poets) admiring this work in Chelsea...We do hope you enjoyed sharing some these moments with us, good luck to the Class of 2013 and stay tuned as we catch you all up on our artistic goings on from the action-packed closing days of school...

2012 Senior Student Sculpture becomes part of campus landscape!!!!

After months of planning, sealing wood pieces in his garage and 3 days of putting it together, with the occasional reworking, in between lacrosse practices, Matt Brice 12' kneels proudly in front of his original sculpture, the newest addition to Dwight-Englewood's growing group of outdoor sculptures.

The original model, put in place using photoshop.

The model came in handy along the way...

Laying out the cedar wood pieces...

Couldn't have done any of this without the help of our amazing grounds crew, especially Bruce and Kevin!

Matt's Dad trained him well, measure twice, cut once or in this case measure 42 times, place it once.

A little help from fellow seniors and lax team members, artists,...Woody and Will.

A 7th grade class stopped by to see the progress and meet the artist. 

Matt with his AP Art History class, visiting the sculpture on a beautiful sunny day.  Photo credit to Ms. Devito, Chair of the History Department & AP Art history guru.

We are all so proud of you Matt!  Let us thank everyone from the beginning through to the end...from the first days in Ms. Diaz' AP Studio Art Class with the simple inspiration of materials and the idea of 'motion', Dr. De Jarnett & Mr. Algrant for their approval and encouragement, Ms. Stadulis, Mr. Devlin and the whole crew for their expertise and work, all of your teachers & coaches, your parents and grandparents, and most of all you for having the vision, design sense and work ethic to take this project from conception to completion and leaving a beautiful work of art behind as you graduate in a few short months,....

4th Grade Sculpture Garden adds Color & Beauty to the Campus

 

Lower School students critique outdoor sculpture before winter break...

Thanks to everyone involved including Ms. Garcia, Mr. Davies, Dr. Dejarnett and of course the 4th grade artists...

The sun sets on another amazing Lower School Art Project as Richard Heinrich's 

'Big Zoot Suit' 

 

 

watches over...